The Creation of Wing Chun

A Social History of the Southern Chinese Martial Arts

Benjamin N. Judkins, Jon Nielson (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

364 Seiten

2015
State University of New York Press (Verlag)
978-1-4384-5693-5 (ISBN)

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Looks at southern Chinese martial arts traditions and how they have become important to local identity and narratives of resistance.

This book explores the social history of southern Chinese martial arts and their contemporary importance to local identity and narratives of resistance. Hong Kong's Bruce Lee ushered the Chinese martial arts onto an international stage in the 1970s. Lee's teacher, Ip Man, master of Wing Chun Kung Fu, has recently emerged as a highly visible symbol of southern Chinese identity and pride. Benjamin N. Judkins and Jon Nielson examine the emergence of Wing Chun to reveal how this body of social practices developed and why individuals continue to turn to the martial arts as they navigate the challenges of a rapidly evolving environment. After surveying the development of hand combat traditions in Guangdong Province from roughly the start of the nineteenth century until 1949, the authors turn to Wing Chun, noting its development, the changing social attitudes towards this practice over time, and its ultimate emergence as a global art form.

Benjamin N. Judkins holds a doctoral degree in political science from Columbia University. Jon Nielson is chief instructor at Wing Chun Hall in Salt Lake City, Utah.

List of Maps and Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction

Part I: Hand Combat, Identity, and Civil Society in Guangdong, 1800–1949

1. Growth and Disorder: Paradoxes of the Qing Dynasty

2. Setting the Stage: The Evolution of Guangdong’s Martial Arts, 1800–1911

3. Northern Tigers versus Southern Heroes: Local Identity, National Reform, and the Golden Age of Guangdong’s Martial Arts, 1911–1949

Part II: Conflict, Imperialism, and Modernization: The Evolution of Wing Chun Kung Fu, 1900–1972

4. The Public Emergence of Wing Chun, 1900–1949

5. Ip Man and the Making of a Modern Kung Fu Master

Epilogue: Wing Chun as a Global Art

Notes
Glossary
Works Cited
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.8.2015
Zusatzinfo	Total Illustrations: 5
Verlagsort	Albany, NY
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	227 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Kampfsport / Selbstverteidigung
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-4384-5693-X / 143845693X
ISBN-13	978-1-4384-5693-5 / 9781438456935
Zustand	Neuware